With FFXIV Dawntrail closing in, you might be wondering which side missions you should take on during the time between Final Fantasy 14’s recent patch 6.5, Growing Light, and the arrival of the new expansion in summer 2024. There’s a lot to choose from, and we at PCGamesN were pondering what the best optional content to do before Dawntrail might be. So, at a press conference during FFXIV Fanfest London 2023, I put the question to the top dog himself – game director Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida.

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